A photographer/movie animator/zoologist team has come up with a remarkable book to teach kids how to recycle in a most imaginative way. A snip here and there, and soon a multitude of creatures -- dogs, frogs, whales, bears, butterflies, and many more -- emerges from simple egg cartons. How-to photos provide the classroom or at-home fun.

Egg-Carton Zoo

Blohm, Hans

Haas, Rudi

Children's Books

Oxford University Press

Using an exciting synthesis of text and pictures, photographer Hans Blohm and scientist Stafford Beers present a graphic exploration of the connections between prehistoric and antique technologies and those of our modern world. In this inventive book, a Byzantine sun-dial and a modern satellite signal receiver are among the many images that have been chosen to show the 'thread' connecting our efforts down the ages to use and record information. The story of computation emerges as the central theme. By tracing its development from the earliest use of pebbles through the abacus, the slide rule and finally to the most sophisticated modern circuits, the authors present a convincing argument that 'high tech' does indeed go back to the dawn of time. Blohm and Beers have travelled from Stonehenge to the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, marvelled over Leonardo's inventions in Milan and examined Leibniz's calculator in Hanover in their search for evidence of the patterns of human invention. They isolate some critical issues in the development of technology, such as the reproduction of written language, and cover many of the outstanding names: Archimedes, Caxton, Pascal, Babbage and Turing among others. With an introduction by renowned zoologist David Suzuki, Pebbles to Computers is a remarkable testament to the depth and richness of humanity's technological achievements.

Pebbles to Computers: The Thread

Science & Math

SUZUKI, David

Beer, Stafford

Mathematics

Color photographs portray the natural beauty of Alaska and depict the way of life of the state's inhabitants

Alaska

History

Naske, Harold

Naske, Claus-M.

Americas

Skyline Pr

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Egg Carton Zoo II

Literature & Fiction

First Edition, 2001, first printing, SIGNED by the photographer, Hans-Ludwig Blohm on the title page, an otherwise like-new, unread, unworn, unopened, unmarked, oversized hardcover, with an equally fine unclipped (no price anywhere) dust jacket, from Penumbra Press. Photography by Hans-Ludwig Blohm. ISBN 1-894131-13-4.

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Penumbra Press

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